Thread: Too Afriad to WILD :(

One of the things I can suggest is picking up a "Bring it on!" attitude, maybe perhaps getting a passive-agressive, warrior stance towards what comes up.

I've also had some nasty experiences with SP. Actually, it was more of the HI that comes with it. In my youth, I used to see these eyeballs with bands around the irises that resembles the colors of the rainbow. And it was severely freaky. It led me to drink warm milk before bedtime, hoping to calm myself. I did that for about half a year.

Like someone stated earlier, try to turn the tables on the HI (like the vampire wanting your blood thing). Personally, if I see the Banded Eye, I just stretch it out and it disappears. Don't let it bother you. I think it's a bit of a confidence thing.

I hope I helped.

the truth is you have to bite the bullet and go through with it. SP used to freak me out b4 I was even into LDingin the 6th grade b/c i didnt know what was happening 2 me; i used to see/feel the wierdest/scariest shit u could imagine. but once i realized that it was somewhat normal and that a lot of people experience it too, i knew it couldnt harm me and got over it.

thats also why im very good at WILDing b/c i already have experience with SP.

I am new to the forums, so I'm not sure what many of you're abbreviations mean. (What's wild?). I can tell you that I have had some pretty terrifying experiences from SP, probably some of the most terrifying experiences of my life. (I have also had some pretty intense ecstatic experiences, which can be a different kind of terror) People who say "just get over it" or "think happy thoughts" have obviously never experienced SP. Also, thinking SP can't hurt you is not true either. Psychological damage can be pretty intense.
As for the users who say face it head on, they are absolutely right. Facing your worst fear and learning from it gives you a great inner strength.
I also found studying the scientific basis as to why SP happens very helpful. Did you know 30% of the population experiences SP at least once in their lifetime. You're not alone.
Just let the SP run it's course. If you're having a frightening experience, there must be some dark part of your pysche that's trying to come to light. Think about your life and try to understand what your demons are, only then can you dispell them.

Also, I have to add that it pretty frustrating reading post from people who don't understand this experience. Instead of calling it "stupid" or "not real", why not try and learn from the people who have actually experienced SP.
When I would enter SP, I would see a large demon made of black smoke with red eyes standing at my door, then eventually floating directly above me and screaming. The whole experience feels "real" while you are in it. Throughout most of my childhood, I thought I was actually plagued by ghosts and demons. Only when I began majoring in psychology did I really understand what was happening to me. Even then, I still felt terrorized in the middle of SP, however, I could wake the next morning and evaluate and understand my experienced.
The good news is, most people who SP also LD and have other gifts of that sort. A blessing with a curse, I guess.

I heard somewhere that 100% of the population experiences sleep paralysis. Most are just not aware of it as they experience it. As for the safety of it, there's nothing to fear but fear itself. As simple of it sounds, just thinking happy thoughts, or "getting over it" is all you have to do. Try accepting the fear as just part of the experience, and see where it takes you.

the same happens to me, i am not going to try wild any more, any way, theres more ways to get a lucid dream

Originally Posted by hermine_hesse

I am new to the forums, so I'm not sure what many of you're abbreviations mean. (What's wild?). I can tell you that I have had some pretty terrifying experiences from SP, probably some of the most terrifying experiences of my life. (I have also had some pretty intense ecstatic experiences, which can be a different kind of terror) People who say "just get over it" or "think happy thoughts" have obviously never experienced SP. Also, thinking SP can't hurt you is not true either. Psychological damage can be pretty intense.

Well, I'll respond as I think I'm one who said, "think happy thoughts" in some sense of the phrase. I understand it's not exceptionally easy to do, sort of like saying, "just believe and want to do X," but that's basically the crux of the matter. I have had SP before and it was a terrifying ordeal, not due to any demons, as there were none, but due to the nature of the reality that was constructed in the state. I was seeing the world through a perspective that was allowed full reality due to the half-sleep nature of the event, yet was seeing the world that I knew to be "real" and objective. The lens my mind had was terrifying in what it created, or more aptly what it lacked.

What that lens was is irrelevant. It was the fixation on that lens that perpetuated the experience, and it was my decision to force a new, or old, perspective that ended the experience. Along those lines, when I was younger I believed in ghosts and was quite afraid of the dark. This fear was perpetuated through fixation on the negative side of the dark and the negative possibilities that I felt confronted me. My fear subsided in two ways: when I simply ceased to focus on the possibilities all together, and when I chose instead to focus and believe in the positive possibilities and emotions. The former method would equate to waking from the SP state, and the latter to transforming it.

No, it is not easy to just "think happy thoughts" or "focus on the positives", especially when there is something terrifying there. But you have to remember that it is precisely your focusing on the negatives that is scaring you, that is making it so negative. My comments are not a step-by-step series of instructions, but a suggested direction. Just remember the other side of the coin also exists, and you have and can experience it just as easily, and it can be just as lasting and leave the same forceful impression.

What is WILD?

Reading this topic has made me scared. I was planning on trying it, but once I closed the lights and lay in bed I chickened out and went to sleep.

Some questions....How do you see the hallucinations in the dark? Do they just appear glowy and stuff?
And reading this stuff has made me recall on an experience I had a few times the past few years. While I was falling asleep, my heart started thumping like crazy and my heart rate got super high, and all the blood was pounding in my head. Really scary. At first I thought I was having a heart attack, but when it went away I just kinda forgot about it and went to sleep. Happened a few times. Do you think it has anything to do with sleep paralysis?

My only suggestion in regards to fear. Is to look at exactly what your afraid of. Are you afraid of feeling out of control? Or are you afraid of what you might see?

I've never had a WILD dream, atleast nothing that I think was one.

Maybe this experience I had will help you out... I "woke up" one morning, it was about 5am, it was foggy outside and casting a white light into my bedroom. I don't know what you would consider this, but it was a surreal experience. I think I was dreaming and it slowly faded into me being awake. But anyways I opened my eyes and saw my room flooded with a white light. I looked down at my hand which was very soft looking. I couldnt see like my knuckles or any of the "imperfections" you have on your skin. I was opening and closing my hand into a fist very lightly, and my fingers looked really strange. Almost longer than normal. I began to sit up slowly, again taking in my surroundings of my bedroom. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. I honestly thought I was dying. I couldnt feel anything in my body, it was just a extremly relaxing soft feeling. I slowly started to see clearly, to the point where I woke up entirely.

It's so hard to put into words, but I tried my best. But I bring it up, because I thought I was dying, which ultimatly should be the biggest fear. And it was incredibly relaxing and peaceful.

I know it sounds sort of morbid almost and I have no idea why It happened.